Word: schmidts
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West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
...planning to cut back their purchases in order to trim their own trade deficits. A top West German finance official privately warns that by the end of the year West Germany could start running its own balance of trade deficit. This would create serious political problems for Chancellor Schmidt and his Social Democratic Party. Schmidt is also bedeviled by two nagging scandals: 1) the suspension last week of Karl Wienand from his powerful post as S.P.D. whip because of charges of tax evasion and lying to an investigative committee, and 2) the fact that Confessed East German...
Consumed by their domestic problems, Western Europe's governments are hardly in a position to launch a bold, coordinated attack on their common enemy, the economic crisis. Yet these governments recognize that that is just what is needed. Chancellor Schmidt has already urged daily consultation among the West's major economic powers to mesh policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed...
Until just before Labor Day, the story in this race focused on Lou Brock and Philadelphia's third baseman Mike Schmidt. Brock was making headlines with his running, but he was also winning games by being in scoring position on second after his steals. Schmidt, who hit .196 as a rookie last year, boosted himself and the Phillies this season by leading the league in home runs and RBIs through the end of August...
...common attitude toward German expressionist artists like Emil Nolde, Ernst Kirchner, Franz Marc, Karl Schmidt-Rottluffor Max Pechstein used to be that their work was a talented but provincial response to French Fauvism...